From a0f7d6454fe0d4f384c00a5e2a0cd724d9019be2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: nanotube
- If you think you can trust me, and/or if you are not interested it getting all those packages + If you think you can trust me, and/or if you are not interested in getting all those packages to run the source file, there is also a binary distribution available for windows.
Alternatively, you can just get the binary package for windows. Unzip the archive, put the contents - anywhere you want (as long as they are all together in the same directory, of course), and just run + anywhere you want (as long as they are all together in the same directory, of course), and run keylogger.exe.
++ Default log location is "C:\Temp\log.txt". If you don't like this, or any other defaults, see below + for command line options. +
Since the file's extension is ".pyw", it runs without a console window in the background, if you just double-click the file. If you want to see the console (to see error output, e.g.), - just rename the file with ".py" extension. -
-- The executable does not hide its console window just yet. I am working on resolving this. + just rename the file with ".py" extension, or run it from command line with "python keylogger.pyw" command.
+PyKeylogger accepts several commandline options to customize its behavior. They are as follows:
usage: keylogger.pyw [options]
-
+
options:
+ --version show program's version number and exit
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-f FILENAME, --file=FILENAME
- write log data to FILENAME
+ write log data to FILENAME [default: C:\Temp\log.txt]
-k, --keyboard log keyboard input (default)
-a, --addlinefeed add linefeed [\n] character when carriage return [\r]
character is detected [for Notepad compatibility]
@@ -109,6 +112,9 @@
unless you do that you will not see any output on the console, because the console is hidden. :)
The same applies if you want to see the help output from the '-h' option.
+
+ To run in debug mode from exe, use the keylogger_debug.exe with -d option, NOT the regular keylogger.exe.
+
Reading the log file
The log file has two non-printable characters in it: backspace, and escape. Thus, opening the file with
@@ -148,7 +154,7 @@
Any contributions will be gladly accepted as patches at sourceforge.
- Last changed: Sep 5 2005 12:27
+ Last changed: Sep 5 2005 14:27
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